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That's a GREAT set. The Peter Green-led masterpiece "Then Play On", the three wonderful Danny Kirwan-led albums, an excellent live session with the Bob Welch-led version which far surpasses the studio albums of that version , and three other albums of the Welch version. Excellent remastering, nice packaging.

"Meditations on Integration" by James Newton is spectacular. And of course a lot of the Danny Richmond and the Mingus Dynasty albums are excellent.

Always been a favorite of mine, and probably the Stylistics' greatest moment (among many). Works for me.

And the stork delivered Ritchie.

Those are definitely of interest!

Into the Jordan river?

One of mine too. I think the title track from Hubbard's 'First Light' may be my very favorite CTI cut.

Behind paywall. Can you give us details?

Lee Morgan - Live at the Lighthouse, and Best of Herbie Hancock, both BN twofers bought on the same trip to Franklin Music at Plymouth Meeting Mall in late '72 or early '73.

How is the sound quality?

Olivia him alone!

Incredibly, it got played on top 40 radio in Cincinnati when I lived there in the late 60's. Pre-figured the later success of the Benedictine Monks, I guess. If I had the Dells album I would play it through, at least once. At this late date, I'm willing to seek out "interesting" instead of "safely good". And yes. I think they were mocking the Rolling Stones, though perhaps affectionately. Same with Bacharach on the Dells album, right down to the album title. YMMV.

Baltin: Who are those artists for you that really best exemplify collaboration? Lesh: The basic inspiration for The Grateful Dead was the Miles Quartet with Coltrane or Trane's quintet from the early Sixties. So that was pretty much the inspiration for the way we approach our music. It was the careful exuberant freedom that they had, the way they listen to one another and how everybody is improvising all at the same time, there's nothing that's fixed. I heard a performance of Trane's Quintet in '62, in San Francisco. It totally transformed my life and my view of music, because it just kept evolving. It just kept changing and evolving and yet you always were aware wherever you were coming from. It was the finest thing I'd ever heard [chuckle]. And I grew up in the classic music scene, so I hadn't known how deeply improvised music could go and how powerful it could be and that really opened my eyes, my ears, my heart. Baltin: You're doing this festival in Chicago with Wilco. Do you see how that early inspiration from listening to the Trane Quintet or the Miles Quartet still influences you today? Lesh: Absolutely, it's like a fundamental building block of how I approach the music that I make. That was the transformative experience. And I've kind of tried to live up to that.

His albums after CTI aren't too hot either. They seem designed to feed his ego. I do like "Uptown Conversations" on Embryo, his first solo album, but prefer his CTI's to his Milestones, and his Blue Notes I find insufferably prissy.

'HIgh Energy' sounds good to me at this late date, and 'Gleam' is a really good live double LP.

I'm one of the exceptions. What I don't have is a large number of, say, Anthony Braxton or Lester Young albums on shelves. I don't get them either. And I wanted to get them, tried a few times decades apart.

1 – I like it and sounds like something I already own. Early 60’s with that calypso beat? 2 – Well done, but older style and more polite than what I really dig. 3 – “Milestones”. Nice trio version, hard to go wrong with that song! Sounds like Tommy Flanagan to me? Subsequent research says that if I’m right, it’s from this: https://www.discogs.com/release/11650362-The-Master-Trio-Featuring-Tommy-Flanagan-Ron-Carter-Tony-Williams-Milestones- which seems reasonable to me, especially in the case of the bass player. 4 – “Where or When” done by someone who listened to a whole lot of Coleman Hawkins. Lovely, but not something I’d seek out. 5 – Wow, I like this, especially the string arrangement! Looking forward to the reveal! Would love to add this to my shelves if I don’t have it there already. 6 – I like this. No ideas on who it is. 7 – Second “must have” for me. This is a killer track. Love the tenor player! Sounds like Pharoah Sanders, though I don’t think it’s him. 8 – Very interesting cut. Curious to know who it is, and what else he/they has/have done. Would like to have this on my shelves, and playing it for my grandson in a few years (he’s four now). This could end up being an expensive BFT for me! 9 – “Afro Blue” by someone who took Kenny Burrell’s style and extended it. Add this to the “must have” pile. Man, what a BFT! Loving the drums, really, loving all three instruments. 10 – Doesn’t work for me. I just don’t get into the “gospelish” styles of music, even though I do have strong Christian faith. Certainly well done for what it is. 11 – Yet another great track! Is it a Chico Hamilton cut from that late 50’s era? More research required. I would bet I already have this on the shelves, if not, yet another one to add! 12 – Nice cut, breezy. Likely a very well-known pianist leading the date. Joe Henderson on tenor? 13 – Lost on me. Pretty, though. 14 – Well outside my range. Incredible BFT, so well put together, thanks! Looking forward to the reveals, especially #’s 5,7,8,9,11. Thanks again!

I liked their initial design with the black & white photos, but when they moved off that, the covers didn't work.

Strange, I pre-ordered the CD from Amazon a long time ago, and just got shipping notice on it (delivery tomorrow). My pre-order price was/is $12.98.

Those Laws Atlantic's are strange albums, as are so many of the Atlantic jazz albums from the Joel Dorn era. Certainly "interesting", but not really successful. Though I do understand the desire to try something different at that poin. Much of the Atlantic Laws material was dreadfully over-produced (bad at it where CTI was good), and the quartet stuff had some poor choices of material. I do like this cut a lot (indeed, have never heard a bad version of this Corea classic), but IMO nothing else on those three albums comes close to it.

Love that cut! Originally on 'The Sugar Man', a CTI leftovers LP released as he was headed to Fantasy.

Favorites of mine for 50+ years. Miller Anderson rules!

+1

You and WebbCity need to grab slots!

I've been doing December for years, willing to stay with that if desired.